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title: Any craic at the Hallowe'en party? What were the folk doin'? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Any craic at the Hallowe'en party? What were the folk doin'? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1277 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…

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Any craic at the Hallowe'en party? What were the folk doin'?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** folk doin · **What happens:** be

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1277 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1277-pg3454-part2/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Any craic at the Hallowe'en party?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t7:1
# text = Any craic at the Hallowe'en party?
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	craic	craic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Hallowe'en	Hallowe'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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*Sentence 2:* What were the folk doin'?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t7:2
# text = What were the folk doin'?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	doin	doin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the folk doin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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dancin' in the barn till the sun came up in the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t7:o1:1
# text = dancin' in the barn till the sun came up in the morning
1	dancin	dancin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	till	till	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | dancin in the barn till the sun |  |  |  | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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bobbin' for apples and singin'

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t7:o2:1
# text = bobbin' for apples and singin'
1	bobbin	bobbin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	singin	singin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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burnin' nuts, apple-catchin', and tellin' ghost stories

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t7:o3:1
# text = burnin' nuts, apple-catchin', and tellin' ghost stories
1	burnin	burnin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	catchin	catchin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	',	',	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tellin	tellin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burnin** | gerund |  | nuts  catchin ', and tellin |  |  |  | ghost stories *obl* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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burnin' nuts and apple-catchin'

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t7:o4:1
# text = burnin' nuts and apple-catchin'
1	burnin	burnin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	catchin	catchin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burnin** | gerund |  | nuts and apple catchin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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